The sinatra_more gem by Nathan Esquenazi provides many useful helpers for use in Sinatra applications. Many of these helpers are familiar to Rails developers. Some of the helpers provided are link_to, javascript_include_tag, and form_for

If you need a wiki solution in your Rails application, you should check out the IRWI plugin from Alexey Noskov. Setting up a wiki couldn’t be easier. All you have to do is install the gem, run a generator, and map the wiki’s root url, and you have a fully functioning wiki section in your app.

WysiHat Rails Engine provides a solution to easily integrate the open source WysiHat rich text editor into Rails applications. The plugin, by 80beans, provides form helpers that insert an editor into your forms very easily.

Riot aims at being very fast and expressive framework. In their own benchmark, they claim to run twice as fast as Test Unit. It has an interesting syntax that minimizes the code in your tests, which is a good or bad thing depending on who you ask.

The Fukuoka Ruby Business Hub Promotion Committee is now accepting applications for the Fukuoka Ruby Award 2010. The top prize is 1,000,000 yen, with up to three second level prizes of 100,000 each. Eligible entries are projects that were made with Ruby in the last year.

Remember, Ruby5 will be released Tuesday and Friday mornings, due to your feedback for consistent, morning releases. To stay informed about and active with this podcast, we encourage you to do one of the following:

Gem Bundler, Gemcutter Gem forking, and client side performance are covered in this Friday morning episode. Also, you'll get plenty of visuals and diagrams with the DevIL Image Library for Ruby, the yUML Command Line Gem, and RailRoad Graphs.